Jorgensen, Larry E.
Summary: More than 6,000 shipwrecks have been recorded on the Great Lakes, but only one offers a true-life adventure like the 1926 rescue of the City of Bangor off the Keweenaw Peninsula in upper Michigan. A fierce November storm tossed the ship with a crew of 23 and 240 new Chrysler automobiles onto a Lake Superior reef. For the first time, Shipwrecked and Rescued: Cars and Crew tells the near-tragic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.L. Management, LLC 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLISummary: John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict, struggles with fits of paranoia and jealousy as he watches the women he loves fall in love with his nephew, Edwin Drood; Fanny Price, a young impoverished woman, arrives at her uncle's country estate, and is snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, whom she soon grows to love; mystery surrounds a pretty Victorian governess and her two young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLAWharves
Contents: The Strike -- Rays of light -- John the stitcher -- L'Autre -- Venus of hornchurch -- Old friend -- Sweet merry time -- Well well well -- Holy maid -- Your lies are fun -- Lived or died -- My will
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Gringo Records
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WHAChallem, Jack.
Summary: "Boost your energy levels, clear up mental fuzziness, feel 10 years younger" -- front cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007
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Summary: Discworld is a magical realm quite unlike, yet hauntingly familiar to, Earth, and it finally has it's first tourist. Rincewind is an inept ex-student wizard who is given the task of guiding Twoflower through the city-state of Ankh Morpork. But unfortunately Rincewind has two problems. First, he is an expert coward and he doesn't feel that he is the best person to guard a naive, and extremely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RHI Entertainment 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COLSummary: Aliens are everywhere, attacking Planet Earth! Rockets sent into space to probe for future space flights, but the rockets keep disappearing. They are being intercepted by an army of space aliens, who must be stopped.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI EARBrooks, Charles E.
Summary: The Trout and the Stream presents a far-reaching approach to practical trout fishing and better trout-stream conservation. It offers one of the most comprehensive treatments ever written on life in running water, the needs of trout, and advanced fly-fishing techniques. One chapter describes 10 different methods of nymph fishing, others discuss tackle, floating flies, and special equipment;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799 BROCleland, Charles E.
Summary: For many thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, Michigan's native peoples, the Anishnabeg, thrived in the forests and along the shores of the Great Lakes. Theirs were cultures in delicate social balance and in economic harmony with the natural order. Rites of Conquest details the struggles of Michigan Indians - the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, and their neighbors - to maintain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Michigan Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 CLE1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.1 CLE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 CLECobb, Charles E.
Summary: "Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self-defense," King assured him. One of King's advisors remembered the reverend's home as "an arsenal." Like King, many nonviolent activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection-yet this crucial dimension of the civil rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 COBAguar, Charles E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712 AguarDawes, Charles E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charles E. Dawes 1982
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 497.303 DAWLittle, Charles E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973 LITNeu, Charles E.
Summary: A man who lived his life mostly in the shadows, Edward M. House is little known or remembered today; yet he was one of the most influential figures of the Wilson presidency. Wilson's chief political advisor, House played a key role in international diplomacy, and had a significant hand in crafting the Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace Conference. Though the intimate friendship between the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOUSE, EDWARD MANDELL NEUBELKNAP, CHARLES E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 973.7 BELCleland, Charles E.
Contents: The treaty -- The foundations of treaty making -- The invention of Euro-American and Indian treaty making -- Treaties and American law -- The treaties of 1836 and 1855 -- United States v. Michigan / by Bruce R. Greene -- United States v. Michigan / by Marc Slonim -- The treaties of St. Peters (1837) and La Pointe -- Lac Courte Oreilles band v. Wisconsin / by Kathryn L. Tierney -- Milles Lacs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.77 CLECleland, Charles E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2001
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 CLECobb, Charles E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 COBFeltner, Charles E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seajay Publications 1982
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 016.3865 FELFeltner, Charles E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seajay Publications 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 FEL1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 910.45 FEL
Friend, Charles E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fithian Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRISchloff, Charles E.
Summary: An illustrated history of Bay View, a resort community located in Bear Creek Township, Emmet County, on Little Traverse Bay. Originally founded in 1875 as part of the Methodist Camp Meeting movement, the community is now on the United States National Register of Historic Places, a United States National Historic Landmark District and a Michigan State Historic Site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C Schloff 0000
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.488 SCHSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007